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The British are so darn polite. In the last episode of Survivors, Sarah apologized to Anya for selling her out to Dexter. “I might have done the same thing in your shoes,” Anya responded. Sarah, a bit of a git, asked, “Really?” Anya replied, “Not really, no, I was just trying to make you feel better.”

In Tuesday’s episode, before Fiona reinfects Abby with the virus that wiped out 99 percent of the world’s population, she prepares Abby in her kindest doctor’s voice, “You’re just going to feel a sharp scratch.” Abby proceeds to bite Fiona on the arm…

OK, maybe not all English are so darn polite, especially those fighting for their lives in a post-apocalyptic world.

In the city, the rest of the gang — minus Tom, who was kicked out for bad behavior — are gathering supplies at a sporting goods store, arguing about when to give up the search for Abby. Najid says never, but the rest take a more rational stance. He makes signs with spray paint and sheets, ones that will show Abby the way to their current home in a fire station.

At the lab, we see Whitaker’s wife and young son, who he secretly squirreled away before the outbreak. Wifey has gone a bit stir-crazy and WANTS OUT of their home sweet keypad-locked room. When Whitaker leaves, she looks at the keypad to see which ones he punched; he had jam on his fingers from feeding his son. Wifey then works through the many variables and discovers the code. Unlike Sarah, Wifey is not a git. Later in the episode she leaves their room and ends up outside of Abby’s. They get to know each other, and what Abby tells her has her running back to her son.

Tom has decided to continue his bad behavior by holding up a handful of survivors, including a girl about Najid’s age, living in a bar. When the rest of their group arrives, Tom runs away and into a group from the PSJ lab who are snatching up survivors. How do we know they are from PSJ, the pharmaceutical company that has Abby? They are driving around in a van with a PSJ logo on the side. Public relations don’t seem to be a priority in this post-apocalyptic world. Tom manages to save someone from the snatchers, the girl. He lets her go then sets off to find Anya and tell her that he has a lead on Abby’s whereabouts. Greg recognizes the name PSJ, but doesn’t say how. Anya recognizes it, too, her being a doctor and all, so the gang — minus injured Greg and Najid — heads off to the address listed on the PSJ product Anya just happens to have in her backpack. When they arrive, they discover it’s a call center and not the evil scientists’ lair.

Back in the city, Najid wanders off alone — fulfilling this episode’s wander-off-alone-and-something-bad-will-happen-to-you quota — and something bad happens to him: The girl Tom robbed robs him. He catches up with her and they meet cute. Najid gives her some food, and she recognizes it as food Tom stole.

Over at the PSJ call center, the gang finds a room stocked with food and booze and records pointing to a PSJ bio-safety facility. They decide to stay the night. During their slumber party, Anya and Tom debate the positives and negatives of shotguns. Sarah lands on the pro-side and decides to sneak out to shoot the man who traded her heavy equipment for sex in the last episode. Al talks her out of it, and then stands guard while she uses her water ration to wash her hair.

Back in the city, the girl Tom stole from then saved leads her gang to Greg and Najid, in the hopes of finding Tom and making him pay.

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Greg and Najid hide from Najid’s girlfriend and her gang.

Greg and Najid run but the girl finds them. She doesn’t alert her gang to their whereabouts, though. Ah, tween like.

At the lab, Fiona informs Whitaker that Abby has recovered from the virus at a remarkable rate. They may not have a vaccine yet, but if they keep reinfecting her they could make enough anti-serum to last for years. Whitaker suggests putting her in a permanent vegetative state, after all they “can’t lose their humanity.” Oh, Whity, you lost that months ago. His wife, out for another stroll, overhears this conversation and busts Abby out. As Abby runs for her life, we see Al and the gang prying open a door at the PSJ bio-safety facility. They pry, Abby runs toward a door, they continue to pry, Abby continues to run. The door opens to an empty room. Abby runs out into a field. See what they did there?

Abby makes her way back to the city and stumbles through the streets in her hospital gown, which stays closed like no other hospital gown has in the history of hospital gowns.

(People wearing hospital garb and wandering the streets in post-apocalyptic movies always remind this blogger of 28 Days Later.)

When the gang reunites, the other gang descends on them and beats on Tom until Anya — who temporarily switches to a pro-gun stance to save him — stops them. Tom agrees to try good behavior for a bit, so he can stay, and then they set off to look for Najid, who has wandered off alone again.

They find Najid on the roof of a building. From there, he spies Abby walking down the street, following his signs. They all descend on Abby and give her a big, group hug.

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